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Ackermann, JohnChristianGottlieb

, a physician and medical writer of considerable note in Germany,
and professor of medicine at Altdorf, in Franconia, was
born in 1756, at Zeulenrode, in Upper Saxony. His
father was a physician, and initiated his son in that science
at a very early age. When scarcely fifteen, he prescribed
with success to many of his friends daring a dangerous epidemic which prevailed at Otterndorf. He afterwards finished his studies at Jena and Gottingen, under Baldinger,
and became a very excellent classical scholar under the
celebrated Heyne. After having practised medicine in his
own country for some years, and distinguished himself by
various translations of Italian, French, and English works,
as well as by his original compositions, he was appointed
to the professorship at Altdorf. He was also a member of
various medical societies; and his practice is said to have
been as successful, as his theory of disease was sound. He
died at Altdorf in 1801. His principal works are: 1. “Institutiones Historiae Medicinse,” Nuremberg, 17.'J2, 8vo.
2. “A Manual of Military Medicine,” 2 vols. 8vo, Leipsic,
1794—95, in German. 3. “The Life of J. Conr. Dippel,”
Leipsic, 1781, 8vo; also in German. For Hades’ edition
of Fabricius’ Bibl. Græca, he furnished the lives of Hippocrates, Galen, Theophrastus, Dioscorides, and Aretams.;
which are said to be well executed. 2

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